Testimony
About a month ago the Lord had me reading John 6, and this morning, on my way here, God said this is what he wanted me to share. It's about having a heart of gratitude for the fact that we know our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
In John 6 Jesus says it twice — in verse 44 and again in verse 65 — that no one can come to him unless the Father draws him, unless the Father has enabled them. When the Holy Spirit highlighted this to me, the significance was about having a heart of gratitude and thankfulness for the timing in which he has drawn us to Jesus, so that we can be one with the Father again, to know him and come to him boldly before his throne with everything we have. That word "enabled" is very important — take it back to the Lord and ask him what he means by it.
I think each of us can remember the moment we encountered the name above every other name. I can remember it clearly, and everything that happened in the timeline before, and everything since. And I stand and say, "Lord, I thank you. I thank you for drawing me. I thank you for the knowledge of Jesus Christ" — because it says my people perish for lack of knowledge. Where Jesus is seated now is victory, so we are walking from victory. That's a heart of saying, "Thank you, God."
My testimony is about my cousin in Canada. She had been in a place where she believed the universe was a woman, and all of these other things. But God showed me never to lose hope, because your faith ought to be so strong that you have hope for the person who is hopeless. That's why he says we are the hope of the world — Jesus in us, to give other people hope to know that this is not the end. Whatever you're going through is not the end. This week, when she messaged me and I asked how she was, instead of the usual complaints — it was never a good day, always a rainy, cloudy, storm-filled day — this time she gave glory to God. She sent me worship songs and said, "You know what? I thank God. I give God praise."
So, church, we never lose hope in people. The problem is they don't yet know the God we serve. Jesus said no one can come to him unless the Father draws them, so this is how we go out into the field: we pray and decree and we say, "Lord, draw them to you," because only through the Father can they know the Son. I looked at everything around me and I said, "Lord, thank you. Even if it's going bad, thank you. Even if it's going good, thank you. Even if it's going indifferent, thank you." Because his grace is sufficient and his mercies are made new every single morning. We give God glory.
— A believer at GCC
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
— John 3:16 (KJV)
What did the Lord say to you while reading this — and what will you do about it before the week is out?